magic

Scope Note

Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural forces; magical techniques of weather control (e.g., rain making); magical rites for increasing the food supply; exorcistic practices (e.g., driving off evil spirits with noise); potent formulas, incantations, and spells; curses; miracles; prevalent types of magic (e.g., imitative, contagious); concept of magical force; functions and social significance of magic; non-supernatural magic (e.g., wonderworking, jugglery, legerdemain, fire-walking); etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 780 religious practices

Related Terms

• 220 food quest
• 240 agriculture
• 545 musical and theatrical productions
• 580 marriage
• 726 warfare
• 751 preventive medicine
• 754 sorcery
• 755 magical and mental therapy
• 760 death
• 777 luck and chance
• 778 sacred objects and places
• 811 logic
• 813 scientific method
• 832 sexual stimulation
• 840 reproduction